Agreed. My stance on this changed over the course of some years after a close family member married an actual engineer (structural) and I got a lot of insight into that world.

It's astonishing to me the ease of which software developers can wreak _real_ measurable damage to billions of lives and have no real liability for it.

Software developers shouldn't call themselves engineers unless they're licensed, insured and able to be held liable for their work in the same way a building engineer is.